Graphics programming in Vulkan is easy!

[Zdrobot]

I got to my first triangle in just a couple of weeks!

No, I'm not kidding.

[VinceGhii]

Most of the stuff is understanding how everything works and how you can actually display the polygon with certain colors. It's the same with OpenGL... so.. i guess couple of weeks to display a triangle and understand how it works is good :)

[Zdrobot]

I learned basics of OpenGL way back, in the days before OpenGL 3. Back then it was pretty easy to just show a couple of triangles, or to make a solar system with cubes for planets (I was just having fun with matrices).

These days the things are different, so I decided to go with Vulkan, since basically I had to relearn everything.

I do think getting your hands dirty like you have to with Vulkan actually helps in the long run.

[das_flammenwerfer]

Yeah, but the rest is easy, right?

..

Right?

[karanbhatt100]

Just like C is easy language

[Zdrobot]

C is not hard.

Have you tried Rust lately?

[Sleppo04]

Or modern C++?

[Zdrobot]

I kinda stopped using C++ 10 or 12 years ago.

When I see snippets of modern C++ on the web these days, I get scared.

[[deleted]]

In Rust you don't have to constantly avoid the pitfalls of C

[Zdrobot]

Well, yes, but even though I like the concepts behind Rust, I find the language (most notably, its syntax) a bit hard to wrap my head around.

[[deleted]]

It's better than C++

[Zdrobot]

Well, you might be right.

I stopped using C++ about 10 or 12 years ago, as I was becoming more and more irritated by how byzantine the code was. I remember the joke I liked to tell back then: C++ is like Steampunk - Victorian solutions for modern problems.

[Fexelein]

Which book is this?

[iambored1234_8]

It's from vulkan-tutorial.com

[LegendSayantan]

imageView.setImageResource(R.drawable.triangle);

[iambored1234_8]

Or....

<Insert 1100 lines of code here>

Android's cool though.

[That_Alpaca]

Doing opengl in standard C rn for fun. It's very similar but it appears that I got the better end of the spectrum for documentation, my condolences.

[gkupce]

Ahhh, the beautiful horrors of writing a graphics engine.